Road and Bridge Report: District 1 (May 2014 Part 2)

Road work continues in District 1 this week, as crews continue priming Lakeside. Upon completion, work will begin on Glover Road and Little Bear Loop. The roads will be oily and sticky, so we are encouraging drivers to please proceed slowly for your own safety.

Recycling is also expected to begin on Cache Road this week, weather permitting. It will be repaired withing two to four weeks, depending on the weather and strength of the base.

Please pay attention to signs and crews in the roads. As always, thank you for your patience.

Road and Bridge Report: District 3 (April 2014)

Another month with little rainfall, however the grass is beginning to grow and we have started our mowing operations.

The road crew has continued to prepare roads to be oil and chipped this summer. They have recycled the road surface on two miles of McClung Road between State Highway 59 and Shroyer Road. This is the last of our FEMA funded roads.

We have been working on funds to do a 2 inch overlay on the Meers-Porterhill Road which is classified as a major collector and did not qualify for FEMA funds. The total cost of this project would be about one million dollars.

We also have Crater Creek Road between Coombs and Woodlawn Roads, Chattanooga’s Cemetery Road, and Paradise Valley Road north of Meers-Porterhill Road prepared and ready to oil & chip.

The crew will next move to Holsey Acres Road from Old Cache Road to Bandy Road and 2nd Street in the City of Cache.

H.K. Builders have started the bridge on Boulder Creek at Gore Blvd. Construction is almost half completed. They should be finished by the first of July.

Several of our crew worked at the Fair Grounds hauling off woodchips that was used in the stock show. Once the wood chips are used for such an event, it has so much manure and trash in it that it has to be hauled off.

Road and Bridge Report: District 1 (May 2014)

Road crews have plans this week, weather permitting, to oil and chip Tony Creek Road, from Wolf Road to Watts Road. The road will be closed for for a couple of days to allow the crews to safely work in the area. This closing could potentially begin as early as today or tomorrow. Please pay close attention to road signs in the area.

Road and Bridge Report: District 1 (April 2014)

The warm weather has allowed for District 1 road crews to get back out and continue improving county roads. Work began this month recycling the roads in the Lakeside area, then moving to Little Bear Loop. Both jobs were completed and will be chipped back by mid June.

Next up was the Edgewater area., which will begin this week. Prep work will be done Tuesday before the final chipping on Thursday. After Edgewater is completed, crews will shift focus to entry areas around Edgewater.

Work on Cache Road will begin next week and can expect to be rechipped middle to late May, which should allow the base time to be fixed in trouble spots.

Additional work is being done cleeaning out the bar ditch from 75th Street to 45th Street.

Lastly, construction on the bridge on Woodlawn will begin today. The contracts allows 120 days to complete the project, straighten the road and make the area safer. Once completed, the piece of road will be reopened.

Thank you for your patience while we work. Also, please pay close attention to the upcoming tax vote and elections. Be sure to educate yourselves on each item. More information on the county tax can be found on this website by clicking the link on the left side of the page. Thank you

Road and Bridge Report: District 3 (March 2014)

We were glad to get the ½ inch of rain recently, but we all are well aware that much more is needed to break this long drought. According to a recent report, we have a deficiency of over 50 inches of rainfall during the last 7 years.

I mentioned last month that we had 35 bridges out of 133 that were identified as needing some type of maintenance to keep them serviceable. The crew has repaired about half of those on the list, including replacing the wing wall on the bridge on old Cache Road where it passes under the railroad tracks.

We received the final bridge inspection report on the five truss bridges that we have in District 3. All except one were determined to be in safe condition. The only one that rated a poor condition was over Medicine Creek at Medicine Park. That rating was due to the condition of the deck. This bridge is in the Town of Medicine Park, but the County has responsibility for inspections. We have notified the City officials in Medicine Park.

We have been clearing out dead trees and limbs upstream from bridges to ensure the creeks and draws can handle high water, with hope the rains will come this spring.

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation gave the County the beams from the I-44 overpass. The beams are over 50 feet long and can be used in future bridge projects.

On March 10, 2014, the ODOT Commission approved $960,000 for the paving of Phase 2, which is the north end of the 112th Street project. The road crew has completely recycled the asphalt and we have acquired the needed right of ways. The engineers will be meeting with the utilities companies concerning those that need to be moved.

At the request of the Fire Chief of the Paradise Valley Fire Department, we added gravel to their driveway from where a water meter had been removed.

The construction has begun by H K Builders, Inc. on putting a bridge on Gore Blvd. between Paint and Airport Roads to replace the low water crossing on Boulder Creek. The total cost of the project is $692,000 and completion date is the 1st of June, depending upon the weather.

The road crew has recycled the old black top on 197th Road from State Highway 36 to Coffee Road. This road is on our list to oil and chip this summer.

The bar ditches were cleaned on 197th Road between Woodland and Coombs Roads. This was done to improve drainage and move the water away from the roadway.

With a fleet of trucks, graders, backhoes and loaders, it takes a lot of work to keep them serviced and running properly. Wayne Cassell, and Kenneth Roach are the dedicated mechanics that we depend on to see to it that all the equipment is in tip top running order. We appreciate being able to depend on these two guys to get the job done!